On 20 May, Marina Sorokina, an environmental activist, was detained by police at a waste landfill construction site for violating COVID-19 quarantine measures. She is a member of a protest movement against construction of the landfill in Arkhangelsk region designed for shipments of garbage from Moscow. Environmental activists say the garbage shipments will include highly hazardous waste and food that will decompose without oxygen and will emit toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide and methane. The released gases will allegedly poison the atmosphere for many kilometers in all directions and toxic filtrates will enter the regions’ water supply.